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Windpump recorded at Achscrabster
Achscrabster Quarries, Windmill was recorded as a windmill or windpump site associated with the Achscrabster quarry landscape.
Site overview
Achscrabster Quarries, Windmill was a wind-powered site at Achscrabster in Caithness. The site is also known as Achscrabster, Windpump. It appears to have been associated with quarry pumping rather than ordinary grain milling.
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History
Achscrabster Quarries, Windmill was a former windmill or windpump site at Achscrabster in Caithness. The alternative name Achscrabster, Windpump indicates that the structure was probably a wind-powered pump rather than a conventional corn or meal windmill. Its location near the Achscrabster quarries suggests an industrial pumping function connected with quarry workings.
No secure construction date, maker, detailed machinery description, ownership sequence, survival condition, or final working date has been established from the sources checked.
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Sources and records
Trove / Canmore place record; Scottish Windmills: An Outline and Inventory; Windmill World site entry